By Robert Albion, Franco Papandrea, Institute of Public Affairs (IPA), 1998

In this 1998 study, Robert Albion and Franco Papandrea explore media regulation and the Australian public interest. In light of four guiding reform principles, they argue that a much less interventionist approach to the Australian media industry would serve the public interest better.

Much of the history of media regulation in Australia would make an excellent case study of the pursuit of private interests by powerful individuals and of the failure of governments to protect the public interest. Media policy-making has never been an easy task. Mixing together, as it does, potent ingredients such as powerful vested interests, political influence, social responsibility, rapidly changing technologies and market failures, debate on the issue is invariably explosive and constantly results in front-page headlines in morning newspapers and lead stories in main evening television news bulletins.

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